The Ruse of Freedom: A Comparative Essay on Ahimsa and Freedom of Expression

IF 0.2 4区社会学 Q4 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Critique Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/cul.2022.0014

Perumal Murugan

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Abstract

Abstract:With the rise of authoritarianism across the globe, debates about freedom of expression have become increasingly urgent in countries like India and the United States. However, these debates do not manifest uniformly. In India the freedom of expression rights of a novelist like Perumal Murugan are denied, while in the U.S. freedom of expression rights are used by conservatives like Charles Murray in public campaigns to promote deliberately provocative speech. This essay compares the Murugan and Murray cases in the interests of advancing our thinking about freedom of expression. Opening new lines of inquiry into freedom of expression via a decolonization of theory, it underscores the limits of liberal Millian ideas and proposes the value of alternative neo-Buddhist notions of ahimsa.

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自由的诡计:非暴力与言论自由之比较

摘要:随着威权主义在全球范围内的崛起，关于言论自由的辩论在印度和美国等国家变得越来越紧迫。然而，这些争论并不一致地表现出来。在印度，像Perumal Murugan这样的小说家的言论自由权是被剥夺的，而在美国，像Charles Murray这样的保守派人士在公共活动中利用言论自由权来宣传故意煽动性的言论。本文比较了穆卢甘和穆雷的案例，以促进我们对言论自由的思考。它通过理论的非殖民化，开辟了对言论自由的新研究路线，强调了自由主义米利安思想的局限性，并提出了另一种新佛教的不杀伐观念的价值。

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期刊介绍： Cultural Critique provides a forum for international and interdisciplinary explorations of intellectual controversies, trends, and issues in culture, theory, and politics. Emphasizing critique rather than criticism, the journal draws on the diverse and conflictual approaches of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, political economy, and hermeneutics to offer readings in society and its transformation.